U.S. Air Force awards SSCI contract to design adaptive flight control systems
January 22, 2009 by news
WOBURN, MA, January 22, 2009 – NASA today awarded Scientific Systems a Phase I SBIR contract to conduct research on adaptive flight control systems. Expanding SSCI’s partnership with key providers of defense technology, additional technical expertise for this effort will be provided through Boeing Phantom Works and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Design of effective adaptive flight control systems capable of accommodating highly nonlinear vehicle dynamics and large uncertainties is fundamental to the future advancement of aircraft development and design. For most aerospace applications nonlinear dynamics and uncertainty can either be inherent to the airframe design or induced from flight sustained upsets, damage and/or external hazards. Hence the proposed technique will find wide applications in flight control design for both commercial and military aerospace vehicles. In addition, effective adaptive control designs are directly applicable to guidance, navigation and control (GNC) problems in space exploration.
Efficient adaptive control system designs are applicable to a wide variety of engineering systems including general Unmanned Systems (aerial, ground, surface, underwater), robotics, automotive industry, process control, and power systems.
Being funded to do this work moves Scientific Systems closer to its goal of enabling intelligent autonomy for unmanned systems by developing one aspect of the “brains and nervous system” necessary for intelligent autonomy.
Contact:
Greg Moeller
(781) 933-5355 x295
gmoeller@ssci.com
SSCI awarded contract for Geolocation of RF Emitters
January 8, 2009 by news
WOBURN, MA, January 7, 2009 – Under Air Force SBIR topic F083-135, Scientific Systems has been awarded a Phase I contract to develop a radio frequency (RF) transmitter geolocation capability. Expanding SSCI’s partnership with key providers of defense technology, Raytheon Missile Systems will subcontract to Scientific Systems as part of this effort.
The program will produce a system for geolocating, associating, and tracking emitters associated with RF guided threats. The system opportunistically uses sensor measurements, enabling both improved geolocation, and applicability to a wide array of missions and sensor configurations. The system is designed to make use of existing and planned RWR hardware and, as such, incremental costs are kept low and there is a believable route to transition validated technology into practice.
Being funded to do this work moves Scientific Systems closer to its goal of enabling intelligent autonomy in unmanned systems by passively sensing available information which will help create actionable information that future unmanned systems could exploit.
About Scientific Systems Company, Inc.
Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) pioneers products and technologies that provide the intelligence for unmanned ground, air and maritime vehicles to autonomously and collaboratively accomplish missions in difficult environments. A leading developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, SSCI is one of the top 20 recipients of Small Business Innovation Research awards in the U.S. and is recognized by the U.S. Navy and Army for its record of successful technology transitions. A privately held company based in Massachusetts, SSCI collaborates with a network of defense industry prime contractors and consultants, drawing on an accumulated investment of over $150 million in advanced research and development funding.
Contact:
Greg Moeller
(781) 933-5355 x295
gmoeller@ssci.com